a journal of art projects, crazy pets, and our adventures in the Sonoran Desert...

May 11, 2014

We have been doing stuff...

...I just haven't been posting about it! But, here's a selection of photos:

In February, I went bird-watching at the Riparian Preserve.(this is a female mallard, getting a drink)

besides birds, I also spent lots of time trying to get good pics of the bees collecting pollen.

In March, I attended a 3-Day scrapbooking event in Tucson, where I scrapped (almost) non-stop from Friday afternoon till Sunday afternoon.

I did get some scrapping done, though-- and had a really fun time doing it!

In March, we also attended the Chandler Ostrich Festival...

...we missed the ostrich races, so these two guys were the only ones we saw.

But, we did see A Flock of Seagulls! (which is a band from the 1980s).

back at home, Zola honed her high-wire skills on the clothes drying rack...

We also went hiking at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.

We marveled at the spring flowers and the beautiful scenery...

...and were amazed to see an abundance of cardinals!!(neither of us have seen any of these in AZ since we moved here.)

...we also attended the 10th Anniversary Salsa Festival here in Maricopa.(there were some good entries, and some baaaad ones.)

In April, we took the dogs to the new dog park here in town, which they absolutely loved!

There was a lot of this.(Prescott, chasing Bisbee, who's chasing the ball)

So, that's the 'Cliff Notes' version of what's been going on in the AZ Desert!! There's also been lots of working (I love my new job, and Tom's been really busy at his), some reading, some art journaling, some scrapping, some television (Justified, Sons of Guns, Deadliest Catch), a few movies (watching the DVDs I got at the book sale, lol!), and planning our first two-week vacation, which we'll be taking later on in the summer to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. ...and I'll try to post sooner than 3 months from now!

3 comments:

hi, Jen! I've been reading a few different things, all from the book sale or from Goodwill, lol! I just finished 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan' which is about China in the mid-late 1800s (it was interesting, but not great); now I'm reading a non-fiction book about dogs: how they evolved, how their senses work, etc. It is pretty interesting, since it explains things like why they like smelly shoes, why they pee on a light pole during a walk (lol!), how they're different than wolves, etc.

About Me

I'm a Midwestern small-town girl transplanted to the Arizona Sonoran Desert. If I'm not hanging out with my BF, our three sable Shelties and our three rescue cats, then I probably have paper or scissors in my hands, or glue or paint on my hands. I love scrapbooking and art journaling, I take classes when I can, and I experiment a lot in my art studio.